Emergent Blogs

Brandon Barr makes an interesting point at TextURL. He says topical lists get their organization at a grassroots level, whereas forums are organized from the top down.

He says blogs are different. How? Maybe the individual blog is different, but I suppose one blog wants to join company with another, for blogs, or clusters of blogs, to join a conversation. In this way, blogs might be like lists: the single voice combines with other voices until, from the bottom up, an overall voice emerges.